This term, Dance Your Way launched their Boys’ Club due to the growing number of boys registering for classes.
The Boys’ Club is a once a month get together for the boys at Dance Your Way. The aim is to create a social and supportive environment which promotes creativity and a love of movement and expression.
Miranda de Barra, Principal at Dance Your Way told Ross-on-line: “There isn’t a focus on a particular dance style pressure to create perfect routines. The main aim is for the boys to bond and to feel confident that dance is something that belongs to them, and to have a safe space to find out more about it and discover what they love.
“Most of the boys already take weekly classes. Some are brothers of our dancers who just want to hang out with other boys in a dance class, and they can also bring friends to drop in and visit as well.”
Food is often a feature too! The launch party involved a ‘make your own pizza’ with one of the dance dads who happens to be a professional chef.
When the club was launched, it attracted attention from an international clothing company specialising in dancewear for men and boys. Boysdancetoo UK asked to create a working partnership with Dance Your Way and one of the boys, Joel Marsh (pictured below), a high achieving, dedicated and particularly talented dancer became the DYW Boys’ Club Dance Captain and Boysdancetoo ambassador.
Miranda said: “A life in the creative arts is infamously harsh on young boys and men who struggle with bullying, particularly dance. Too many boys have fallen victim to this and the mental health of many more is compromised throughout their lives. Devastatingly, boys turn away from their passion in dance more easily purely because of bullying and the cruel, misguided opinions of others.
“It is the hope at Dance Your Way that the boys find a normalising of dance as another fun hobby and perhaps a doorway into something more; and in a worst case scenario, if any of them do encounter unwelcome comments that they would feel confident in their peer group, their ‘tribe’ who think what they do is cool and totally normal.
“New faces are always welcome, even for a one off visit. A friendly welcome, and probably something good to eat awaits you!”
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